Low Or No View Images

Funny you bring this up, Mary. I recalled someone here saying that you should Like each of your images for search purposes. So, yesterday I jumped in at number one and started hitting like. I was kind of shocked at how many of them have WELL under ten views! A depressing wake-up call, for sure.

This one has ONE view.

I just think it's the luck of the search, Valerie. I have stuff that's been up here for four years with one or two views. And I don't think it's because they are terrible images (or maybe they are and I'm delusional LOL). It's just what people happen to land on or click at random in your gallery.

Stone Abstract by Barbara Moignard



One of many with low views.

LOL, Mary. I just looked at all my low count images to find 2 to post, then I realized there's a good reason why they've had very few views! They suck so badly, I'm ashamed to post them. Slinking back to my corner now...

This one is disappointing since its sold on another site. Only 17 views here.

Do bots count, Mary?
:::;ducking:::::

I think they DO...it's pretty sad when you can't even get a bot to look at it!

That's why I included "Low" in there, Marlene. I'm sure almost everything has been hit by a bot, but believe it or not, I've got some old ones here that actually have 0 views still so not even the BOTS like them.....can't figure that out LOL.

Kathleen, I think you're waaay to hard on yourself. I have never seen anything in your galleries that I wouldn't be proud to hang on my walls.

I've clicked on everything and have not seen oneI don't like so far (of course I might not tell you to your face ;-), but really. Maybe these little guys will get some attention now.

We were typing at the same time, Valerie. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. To be shunned completely by the bots, well, there's a special kind of loneliness LOL.

12 views on this one...



I thought it was pretty interesting. It was called The Extension Cord Line because of the box car between the two engines in the distance. When diesels are hooked up together, they are done so through MU cables, which lets the engineer control all of the engines from whichever one he is sitting in at the time. Because of a weight restriction on a bridge on this line, a box car needs to be put between the two engines. The MU cables between the engines are then run through the box cars as a really big, really heavy extension cord.

Then you have the two men are the car in the foreground. This car had been placed in front of the engines in the background, but had been left behind the switch we see. The car is then unhooked from the train, the engines move past the switch which is then lined up for the car to take the other track. And now the car is rolling down on it's own while the crew uses the hand brake on the car. This places the car on the right track without having to use a time costing move breaking up the engines to get the car placed.

On top of that, this track was taken up not long after tis shot was made in 2005 and then in 2010 or so, the entire Extension Cord Line was first sold to another railroad, and then finally abandoned altogether. I kinda though railfans would at least find the shot using Google to search. (But then again, the shots does pretty well on another web site, views wise.)

I have the same experience, Joseph. An image I sold elsewhere has almost no views here - but it's a black and white image and they don't get nearly the views as the color version - at least here on FAA, and I'm just speaking about my stuff, anyway.

It's a complete mystery. We need divine intervention or a crystal ball to figure it out.....

Thank you for the kind words, Mary! But I'm about to prove you wrong, my friend.

Kathleen, those are lovely. I like complex-pattern images which is basically what those are. As long as there's not an ugly rooftop in the background or something, I think they work and are really pretty.

Jason, I like that.

I'm not going to comment on every image in the thread, but I will click on everything and hope everyone else clicks on at least some of them too....after all, that was the point ;-)

Last three with 18 views.

These have 0-1 views. :( Perhaps I need to work on keywords or they're awful images? I thought liking your own work wasn't allowed?



EDIT: My apologies for not reading the OP completely. Have removed third image :)

Yes, you can, and should, like your own work. It will only let you do it once, unless your signed in from another i.p. address. (I've voted for myself at home and at work - shhh don't tell LOL), but you are encouraged to click "like" on your work. I've accidentally favorited my own work too, although I've only done that a couple of times by accident.

I don't think few views have much to do with the quality of the work. It could be keyword related, or just the luck of where people land in your gallery.

Thanks for the reply Mary! Mums the word! :) Off to like my work hehehe

I don't think the "image like" police will be showing up at my door LOL

Quick fwiw tip on getting a quick 8-20 bot views per image: submit the page to Stumble Upon. Almost immediately upon submission, SU indexing bots scurry out and hit your submitted page.

I did not use to do this as it was time consuming to enter the 5 or 6 fields you had to fill in with each submission, but now all you have to do is click the SU button on the page and click 'Yes' or 'No' to the SU query about the image being safe for a work environment and then you receive a submission confirmation. Of course, you have to have an SU account and be logged in at the time of submission.

I don't know the rhyme or reason, I just know that these SU bots come a runnin' every time I do the 2 second submission (only seems to work once per page).

All that said, I'm not sure views matter much for individual images as far as FAA rankings are concerned, but I'm willing to bet a couple seconds per image that aggregate views (i.e. traffic to your port collectively) may count in some small way towards your account ranking...just a hunch. FAA seems geared to reward inbound traffic to the site - real or botmatic.

Shawn, I read somewhere, but it was a while ago, that Stumbleupon frowned on stumbling your own work all the time. If they have done away with that "restriction" that's a good idea.

I've also found that it you take 20 minutes or so and click through a bunch of your own images, it also triggers the bots.

That still doesn't explain to me, especially with the bot flurry the last couple of months, why a few of mine still have zero views. I'm off to check that now....I'll sort it by low to high and see if I actually still have any with zero....

I could be wrong on this, so please correct me if I am. I think that when you like your images they show up in the Activity list for all those following you. So if I were to go through and like all my images one at a time, the Activity list would be flooded with my likes of my own images. I guess that could work for or against you depending on how you look at it. If you do just a few at a time it probably wouldn't be so bad.

Yes, it shows up there, Carolyn. I don't have automatic tweeting or Facebook things turned on because I've been known to upload over 100 images at one sitting and I don't want people to stop following me because I've gotten obnoxious about it.

I'll tweet one or two out of a series and hope someone comes in to look.

I have 2,796 images posted. I just looked and 54 of them still have zero views, which I assume means not even bots. Most of them are newer but there were a few in there several months old.

So very strange when the bots hit and go through almost all of your stuff, then they just ignore a few at random....

Hi Mary - I heard that too, but to date I've 'stumbled upon' 400 or so of my own images without any issues at all - and I don't use SU for any other purpose myself. I figure if I can continue, a 1000 stumble upons = 10000-12000 FAA views. Worth much in the long run?, probably not much, but its just a quick 2 second part of my upload workflow, along with liking my own images ;).

Here's a couple of mine.

Likes don't show up in the Activity feed, but Faves and, of course, comments do.

Are you all on Twitter. Open a Twitter account and tweet away your images. You will get lots of views.... at least by BOTS ! :) :)

Whoops! Liked my images before reading the latest posts... :( Had I known, I would've done only a few a day....

Mary, I doubt they'll come a knockin' also! LOL ;)

Shawn, I really don't do much on any of them, and none on StumbleOn, FB or Pin. Just twitter once in awhile, which has gotten me very few views.

I'm actually glad the bots haven't hit this account. I know that 95+% are real views and prefer them anyways. Though that might be the wrong way to think.

Keeping to images with single digit views for now.

Nice stuff, everybody!

I have to go out for about an hour....I'll be back.

I will also be out for about 2 1/2 hours tonight while my beloved Red Wings try for a spot in the playoffs for the 24th year in a row. The Bruins did them a favor last night and lost....(no throwing tomatoes from New England, please ;-).

I have some iPhone cases that have fewer views - but this is perhaps the lowest of my 'regular' abstracts with the least views - 11

Here's six of mine with less than 25 views. Not sure if there was a limit.

I've never had much of problem with views. It's sales where I have a problem. I've now gone more than five months since my last one.

so talented and deserve some likes :)

Nice work everybody. I've viewed everything so far....I have to dig up a couple more of mine that have no views at all...I'll be back.

Two with zero views. One older and one newer:

Mary,

I haven't forgotten about the thread, just can't use the desktop yet. It's upstairs, and I'm watching the 3 grandkids who are downstairs playing. I'll get to it eventually. :)

Grandkids come first, Greg. From the pictures I'm getting of mine, the 3 year old has grown about 4 inches since I saw him at new years. Well, maybe not 4 inches, but it looks that way....

Only 3 views so far

artNimages photography

Let's see… Everyone so far is posting 2 images… and …Mary put a limit of 2 images per day in her original post… so, I'm just guessing here, there's a 2 image limit.

That's ok, David. I'm pretty good at following directions, but as I get older, I find I tend to skip over stuff and miss things, so I'm not that worried about it....

My photography is mostly overlooked, especially this one.

My photography is mostly overlooked, especially this one.

Mary

One of my pet peeves is the advance apology.

If it occurs to you that you may be doing something wrong, ask first. Don't just do what you want anyway.

I understand, David. I want to smack people who use the word "irregardless" which doesn't exist in the English language.

Mary, this is a fantastic idea or thread! I love the art being showcased. Here is my image with only three visits.

Thanks, Lisa. I did one of these about a year ago. I had one image that I really liked and it had zero views after several months, so I thought we should have a thread to bring these lonely images out of their closet.

I've given every image in the thread a view so far and urge others to click on these when you have time.

I too like this thread. I viewed all images that I thought had good artistic appeal and liked some. Please return the favor. Oh, and how about commenting and following me?
This painting is lovely but gets less attention than it's companions of a similar theme:


This painting is a favorite of everyone who sees it but for some reason gets very little traffic on FAA:



Thanks in advance,
Celeste

I can live with less views when this is the result:
19 views now, 3 sales, the first from the first view!



BTW nearly every 5th of my images has not any view, even not from bots.
One example:

I have some of those too, Rudi. Heaven only knows why the bots miss some images, but I guess bots aren't visiting our galleries based on taste LOL.

I wish we just had a like button here or something.. the images that no one ever looks at, I just take off and rework and then resubmit again and people say ...wow cool image and then it goes back many pages and gets buried again until I put it in a contest or someone accidentally discovers it or tweets it or facebooks it.. I sure don't do that for myself.. I have facebook and no friends ,and don't have twitter, don't know how to get get friends there.. not sure what the pinerest thing is and other things that people mention so don't do that but do post a few on here in these discussions every once in awhile and they somehow get back to the pages deep under and see them,so don't really have any current no look.. but if I do I will look for your thread again.. good idea by the way .. Jean

Jean, I've been working on a computer, like most people for years and years, and I've just now started figuring out the twitter thing (I only know how to tweet not how to follow although I'm following some people), and I finally started pinning. The last thing I will do it set up a Facebook fan page (maybe this weekend) but I keep putting it off because I really dislike Facebook.

Bottom line, though, they say you really have to get your art out there if you want people to see it, so I've been gritting my teeth and doing some of that. Trying to do it in little pieces so it doesn't feel so much like "work".

But what I like to do and a lot of other people do is keep the new stuff up front for a while then shuffle some of the other stuff up front again after a while - like the stuff that gets the most views and comment, so if someone lands on your page and goes into the "images" view (if you have it set to galleries by default), then are interested enough to click through more than one page. That's the theory, anyway. Who knows if it really helps?

Okay, Mary, finally got a chance to get on the desktop. I've tried to copy image codes on the tablet, but am unable to copy it completely from the "box" that the code is in. Any way, here are my first couple:

Under 5 views.

Nice work, guys.

As this thread gets longer (if people keep contributing) and it becomes unpractical to click on and view everything, I would encourage people to click on at least a few images here. I've clicked on everything posted here, and I have not seen any "dogs". In my opinion, they are all good works, so they really should get a little attention.

Two more with zero views. One old one new:

My viewer are the same from my registration to the site! hope they are interesting for one of my work! :)

Here's one of mine

Adding a couple more:



The deck faces the barn across the pond.

Lots of mine don't get any views!

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New so low views....

Good morning guys. I thought this thread was dead and gone. Thank you everyone for contributing. I've looked at each and every image. Here are two more with zero views. I don't get that many views on the black and white stuff:

Going Nowhere is lonely because I can't log in to view it even when I am already logged in. Tried at least 6 times, 2 different ways! I visited some others and they seem to have no real reason to be under-appreciated. Here's one of my loneliest. Is it boring or does nobody like paper marbling any more or what? I thought it would make a nice card or pillow....

This green version of my cats and catnip graphic has very few views and neither does this photo of a cormorant taken at Murrells Inlet, SC.

It's a form that I don't deal with often, digital art from photographs, but most of my others in this style have more views.

This one should be higher, my Houston cityscapes are generally higher, and sell, not sure why this one hasn't really.

Nice work, everybody. I still have not seen anything I consider a "bad" image in here. Maybe they will get a little attention now, hopefully.